Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10

tOWel the EDITORS, ana right falthfull
did they perform their self appointed
Office. For generous, open hearted hos
pitality the people of the Queen of tn
Prairies and builder of railroads take Tn
front rank.
"THE CHICAGO OF TEXAS"
Waxahachie Enterprise: Last week W.
gave an account of Fort Worth's cordia
! welcome and generous hospitality ten.
dered to the Texas press. When the
association adjourned Tuesday afternoon
the editors, accompanied by number OF
/ ladies and Fort Worth citizens, took the
street cars for the magnificent wholesale
grocery house of Mr.. Joseph II. Brown
at the foot of Main street. 1t is q main.
moth building, I38x20O feet, handsomely
CONSTRUCTED OF Palo Pinto stone. The
! spacious office and counting rooms are
made OF native Texas pine, oak or varnisn
! color, and are of beautiful finish and
workmanship. The basement and the
three stories above are filed with gro
ceries of every description. Through
iron pipes in the basement an even
temperature is secured winter and sum-
mer, for the preservation of vegetables,
fruits, etc. Tracks of the different rail
roads run on two sides of the building SO
as to facilitate loading and unloading.
Across street from the main building IS
Mr.. Browns extensive factory where one
can see the process of starch making,
coffee pGrching and grinding, manufac-
turing OF baking powders, favors, eX-
tracts, candy, chewing gum, vine
gar, bluing, ETC., also the work of
putting such goods in bottles, paper
packages or boxes.
The crowd next entered carriages and
were driven to thu refrigerator and ice
factory on the river east of the city. The
water is obtained from two artesian
wells, and the ice is said 10 be equal to
the best lake ice from the north There
are two other ice factories. in the city.
The three have 8 capacity of 100, 900
pounds per DAY. The city has the Holly
system of wateTworks, with about sixteen
miles of water mains. The sup
ply Of water comes from the Clear
Fork of Trinity river. Fort Worth is es-
pecially proud of her drinking water
which comes bubbling up through hun
dred artesian wells, clear as crystal, from
q bed of sand 900 feet below the earth's
surface. These wells furnish an mex
haustibie supply for drinking, irrigation
aud general household purposes We
passed by the Wesleyan college and some
Of the public school buildings. The to-
tai enrolment in the public schools dur
ing the session of 1867 amounts TO over
1000, with an actual average attendance
of l4I4, and over forty teachers. But
the leading characteristic of Fort Worth
appears to be her wonderful activity and
enterprise in the construction of railroads.
> The st. LOUIS, Arkansas and
Texas has Just been surveyed to the Fort
via Plano and Grapevine, and three
other new roads are now il contempla-
ton. The seven existing railroads
branching out in ten different directions
are the result Of eleven years energy end
industry, and with other public enter
prises have increased the city's popula-
lion from 1000 in 1875 to about $4,000 in
1887. What another decade of indomta-
bic pluck and enterprise may accomplish
in The way of growth and prosperity time
alone can determine. AS we passed the
many handsome residences, fine churches
and school buildings, factories, ana other
evidences OF progress and prosperity,
there were frequent EXPLANATIONS of
surprise from those who had never be-
tOIS AiSllCu LLlC OUlCLSO VI lCAdS.
Northern and eastern capital finds
here place for profitable investment,
and manufacturing industries are becom-
ing quite numerous; such as iron works,
planning machines, grist mills, car and
machine works, manufactures OF bug
gies, wagons, clothing, shoes, ccnfeG-
tioneries, mineral waters, and other like
establishments, altogether about fifty
in number. Her graded streets and side
walks are not surpassed, ii equaled, Dy
any city in the state, and the rapidity and
nigh figures at which real estate con-
tinues to change hands demonstrates the
fact that The citizens as well as outside
capitalists have an abiding faith in the
future prosperity of the city.
On Wednesday afternoon before start
ing on the excursion over the Rio Grande
Railroad the editors, by invitation, visited
the cracker factory OF the Wright Carter
Cracker Co., and witnessed the process
of making cakes, jumoles, crackers, etc,
at the rate of fifty barrels of -four per
day. Each editor carried off a box of
Lone Star butter crackers, and DR.. j. B.
Crsnfill, the great rum pulverizer, display
ed wonderful talent in pulverizing ium-
bles and butter crackers"